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Members Of The Tasmanian House Of Assembly, 1916–1919
This is a list of members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly between the 25 March 1916 election and the 31 May 1919 election. At the 1916 election, no party won a majority, and the Liberals' Walter Lee became Premier of Tasmania. During the term, the Liberal Party converted into the new Nationalist Party, and the Labor Party split over conscription. However, most of the Parliamentary Labor Party stayed with the executive, and the two MHAs who left the Party switched to federal politics. The state of flux, however, resulted in four seats switching from Labor to Nationalist at by-elections and recounts. All members listed here as Nationalists who held office prior to 1917 were previously known as Liberals. Notes : Nationalist (formerly Labor) MHA for Franklin, John Earle, resigned on 1 March 1917, and on the same day was appointed to a vacancy in the Australian Senate. Nationalist candidate and former MHA Arthur Cotton was elected on 14 April 1917. : Nationalist (formerly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tasmanian House Of Assembly
The House of Assembly, or Lower House, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. The other is the Legislative Council or Upper House. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Hobart. The Assembly has 25 members, elected for a term of up to four years, with five members being elected in each of five electorates, called divisions. Each division has approximately the same number of electors. Voting for the House of Assembly is by a form of proportional representation using the single transferable vote (STV), known as the Hare-Clark electoral system. By having multiple members for each division, the voting intentions of the electors are more closely represented in the House of Assembly. Since 1998, the quota for election in each division, after distribution of preferences, has been 16.7% (one-sixth). Under the preferential proportional voting system in place, the lowest-polling candidates are eliminated, and their votes distributed as prefere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Henry Cleary
John Henry Cleary (2 September 1854 – 23 February 1937) was an Australian politician. He was born on the Tasman Peninsula in Van Diemen's Land. In 1916 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as a Labor member for Denison. He served until his defeat in 1928. Cleary died in Hobart Hobart ( ; Nuennonne/Palawa kani: ''nipaluna'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Home to almost half of all Tasmanians, it is the least-populated Australian state capital city, and second-small ... in 1937. References 1854 births 1937 deaths Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Tasmania {{Australia-Labor-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Hoggins
Charles Davenport Hoggins (27 May 1862 – 28 April 1923) was an Australian politician. He was born in Hobart. In 1898 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as the member for Hobart. He lost his seat in March 1900 but returned in December, serving until April 1903. His last appearance in politics was when he was elected to the multi-member seat of Denison as a Nationalist Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement, nationalism tends to promote the interests of a particular nation (as in a group of people), Smith, Anthony. ''Nationalism: The ... in 1917 following a recount caused by Walter Woods's resignation. He was defeated in 1919 and died in 1923 in Sorell. References 1862 births 1923 deaths Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly Colony of Tasmania people {{Australia-Nationalist-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Hobbs
Edward Hobbs (25 November 1868 – 20 July 1936) was an Australian politician. He was born in Hampshire in England. In 1916 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as a Nationalist member for Darwin. He joined the Country Party in 1922 and from October to November 1923 served as temporary Opposition Leader The Leader of the Opposition is a title traditionally held by the leader of the largest political party not in government, typical in countries utilizing the parliamentary system form of government. The leader of the opposition is typically se ..., a position he held again from October 1924 to July 1925. In 1925 he became a member of Walter Lee's "Liberal" grouping in parliament, before eventually rejoining the Nationalists. Hobbs was defeated in 1934 and died in Ulverstone in 1936. References 1868 births 1936 deaths Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Tasmania National Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Tasman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Hean
Alexander Hean (11 June 1859 – 11 January 1927) was a Scottish-born Australian politician. He was born in Lochee in Scotland. In 1903 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as the member for Sorell. When proportional representation was introduced in 1909 he was elected as one of the Anti-Socialist members for Franklin. Becoming a Liberal, he was re-elected in 1912 but lost his seat in 1913. In 1916 he returned to the House and the following year became a Nationalist Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement, nationalism tends to promote the interests of a particular nation (as in a group of people), Smith, Anthony. ''Nationalism: The .... He held the seat until his retirement in 1925. Hean died in Sorell in 1927. References 1859 births 1927 deaths Free Trade Party politicians Commonwealth Liberal Party politicians Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Hays
Herbert Hays OBE (20 September 1869 – 16 February 1960) was an Australian politician. Hays was born near Forth in Tasmania, and was educated at Don State School before becoming a farmer. He was chairman of the Don Road Trust and senior warden of the Mersey Marine Board. He also held office as a Freemason in their Grand Lodge of Tasmania and was a long-time member of the Independent Order of Rechabites. Hays was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as a member for Wilmot at a 1911 by-election, having nominated as a Liberal League candidate. He supported assistance for farmers, liberalising requirements for settlers of Crown lands, increased railway construction to allow new districts to be opened up for farming and for the construction of an experimental farm. He denounced preference to trade unionists in employment and advocated reducing taxation on landowners. Hays was re-elected at the 1912 election, at which time the '' Daily Telegraph'' described him as "essent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hayes (Tasmanian Politician)
John Blyth Hayes (21 April 1868 – 12 July 1956) was an Australian politician who served as a Senator for Tasmania from 1923 to 1947. He was President of the Senate from 1938 to 1941. Before entering federal politics, he had been a member of the Parliament of Tasmania from 1913 to 1923 and served as Premier of Tasmania for almost exactly one year, from 1922 to 1923. Early life Hayes was born on 21 April 1868 in Bridgewater, Tasmania. He was the son of Elizabeth (née Blyth) and Joshua John Hayes, his father being a farmer. His grandfather John Hayes was a Tasmanian member of parliament in the 1860s. Hayes was educated by his mother, but little else is known of his early life. He participated in the Western Australian gold rushes, and eventually became the manager of an ore-reduction facility and cyanide works at Wiluna. In about 1906 he returned to Tasmania and took up a property at Scottsdale. He married his cousin Laura Linda Blyth on 22 January 1907. Her brother Ernest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Guy
James Allan Guy, CBE (30 November 1890 – 16 December 1979) was an Australian politician who represented the Australian Labor Party in both the Tasmanian House of Assembly and the Federal House of Representatives, before leaving to represent the United Australia Party and then the Liberal Party of Australia in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. His father, James Guy, had also been a Senator. Early life Guy was born on 30 November 1890 in Launceston, Tasmania. He was the son of Margaret (née McElwee) and James Guy. His father, a blacksmith by profession, was one of the founders of the Australian Labor Party (Tasmanian Branch) and represented Tasmania in the Senate from 1914 to 1920. His uncle George McElwee would be elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council in 1940. Guy was educated at Invermay Primary School and after leaving school worked as a butcher. He was the state secretary of the Australasian Meat Industries Employees' Union from 1911 to 1916 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Fullerton (politician)
William James Fullerton (20 June 1888 – ?) was an Australian politician. He was a lawyer before entering politics. In 1913 Fullerton was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as a Liberal member for Denison, holding his seat until his retirement in 1919. Fullerton died in England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b .... References 1888 births Year of death missing Commonwealth Liberal Party politicians Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly Place of birth missing Tasmanian lawyers {{Australia-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Foster (Australian Politician)
George Matthew Foster (29 January 1884 – 6 June 1956) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Nationalist Party and served terms in the Tasmanian House of Assembly (1917–1919) and as a Senator for Tasmania (1920–1925). He suffered from shell shock and his term in the Senate was marked by absenteeism. He later became a leader of the temperance movement in Sydney. Early life Foster was born on 29 January 1884 in Adelaide, South Australia. He was the son of Isabella (née Forscutt) and George Foster, his father being a tailor's cutter. The family moved to Tasmania and he was "probably educated in Hobart", leaving school to train as a mechanic. Foster enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) in 1914 and served with the 3rd Light Horse Regiment. He spent three months in Gallipoli, later serving with the regiment in Egypt before being sent home to Australia due to illness. In 1917, he became the inaugural state secretary of the Returned Sailors and Sol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Evans (Australian Politician)
Sir John William Evans, CMG (1 December 1855 – 2 October 1943) was an Australian politician, a member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly and Premier of Tasmania from 11 July 1904 to 19 June 1909. Early life and nautical career Evans was born in 1855 in Liverpool, England, but migrated with his family to Battery Point, Tasmania when he was four years old. After education in Hobart, Evans embarked on a year-long voyage through Asian ports with his parents. His father, a merchant seaman, arranged an apprenticeship for him on his part-owned barque, ''Helen'', trading to China and Japan.W. A. TownsleyEvans, Sir John William (1855 - 1943) '' Australian Dictionary of Biography'', Volume 8, Melbourne University Press, 1981, p. 447. Political career John Evans was first elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly in the electorate of Kingborough on 20 January 1897. He did not have a political party, at this time, but is described as Anti-Socialist. Evans became Premier on 12 July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Earle (Australian Politician)
John Earle (15 November 1865 – 6 February 1932), commonly referred to as Jack Earle, was an Australian politician who served as Premier of Tasmania from 1914 to 1916 and also for one week in October 1909. He later served as a Senator for Tasmania from 1917 to 1923. Prior to entering politics, he worked as a miner and prospector. He began his career in the Australian Labor Party (ALP), helping to establish a local branch of the party, and was Tasmania's first ALP premier. However, he was expelled from the party during the 1916 split and joined the Nationalists, whom he represented in the Senate. Early life Earle was born on 15 November 1865 in Bridgewater, Tasmania, the son of Ann Teresa (née McShane) and Charles Staples Earle. His mother and father were of Irish and Cornish descent respectively. Earle grew up on his father's farm and attended the local state school. At the age of 14 he was apprenticed as a blacksmith at a foundry in Hobart. He attended engineering and sci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
